On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Harald Barth wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone have any information on which versions of solaris 10 >>> are not safe? Any direction to a bug report or a mail list thread >>> would be appreciated. >>> >> >> I think the sneaky thing was that >> a) UFS with logging may rot your files >> b) Some update made logging the default mount option >> I don't think ZFS is safe either. >> >> Harald. > > ufs without logging is the only safe option for the inode fileserver on > solaris. > > The default logging option was changed in Solaris 9 9/04 > See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5770/6ml72d6kd?a=view > > It's sneaky because the default is logging is on for disks over 100G or some > similar threshold. > > UFS with logging WILL eat data with the inode server, you will have to > salvage on each service restart when the /vicepX is unmounted and remounted > (i.e. every boot/reboot). > > The namei fileserver is safe for ufs (with or without logging) and ZFS > filesystems on solaris. > > Use namei, it's safer and faster on ufs w/logging than inode without > logging. > > BTW, where should I document tidbits like this?
We probably need to update our install guides, or replace them, to allow for notes like this. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
